This assignment I really enjoyed. I also started out a little nervous. I leaped out into the world of design with the little knowledge that I have learned so far this year, along with my text book and a little research and I feel that I found something new and exciting. There were many challenges that I faced along the way. I started by researching fonts to decide what direction I should go in. I looked on dafont.com and I really like the Nashville look. It reminded my of the western feel. With that idea in mind I started brainstorming ideas and sketching layouts for my poster. It wasn't until later when I started working at school did I realize that the Nashville font wasn't available on the school computers. My next option was to research a different font that was available or to choose a font that would also work in the western theme. I found another font called "Marcelle" and I really thought I could work with that font to be a varsity theme. In the end I wanted to stick with the western theme and the font "Playbill" really worked!
Other challenges that arose included spacing and deciding on where to place text and how much images I should use. I think my biggest frustration was the shading and color. After speaking with my professor I decided to add some more color to my original design. I agreed with his opinion and really liked the colors that I came up with for the over all look. What became frustrating is that when the poster is printed the shades look different then they do on screen. Although I am now pleased with my over all image the process on printing and re-printing became tedious.
Before I finished my poster, as I mentioned earlier, I got some personal feed back and I really felt that this helped to re-assure me and let me know that I was on the right track. Overall I really feel that I learned a lot from this assignment and I am looking forward to what my peers have come up with!
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